https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.538

Analysis of a dream series by the Dream Coding System developed by Ulrich Moser

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021): SPECIAL ISSUE "Working on dreams, from psychotherapy to neuroscience"
Submitted: March 14, 2021
Accepted: July 27, 2021
Published: August 24, 2021
Dream analysis, dream coding method Moser and v. Zeppelin, process analysis.
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Authors

Gabriela Pap
Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria.
Fritz Lackinger
Vienna Psychoanalytic Academy, Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria.
Gerhard Kamp
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5064-6366
ULG Psychotherapy Research, Postgraduate Unit, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Henriette Löffler-Stastka
henriette.loeffler-stastka@meduniwien.ac.at
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8785-0435
Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, and Postgraduate Program of Psychotherapy Research, Postgraduate Unit, Teaching Center, Vienna, Austria.

This paper serves psychotherapeutic process research and shows the process of change in a psychodynamic, individual psychological psychotherapy by means of a theory-based content analysis of the dreams reported in this therapy. The analysis of the patient’s dreams is carried out according to the dream coding method by Ulrich Moser and Vera Hortig (2019). The guiding question is about changes in positioning and interactions of the dream elements, how can they be determined and how (within the framework of the underlying dream generation theory) the influence of these changes on the patient’s ability to regulate affect can be assessed. Dream coding according to Moser and Hortig uses only the manifest dream and can be regarded as a research tool that rests, among other things, on psychoanalytic concepts, while at the same time taking into account more recent findings in dream and affect research. Its focus is on the coding of the present dream experience and the transformation of dream elements both within individual dreams and in the course of an entire dream series. It allows, without knowledge of the biographical anamnesis and without using psychoanalytic interpretation methods, to recognize changes in the dream structure and the affect regulation produced by it. The coding system thus also offers the possibility of making comparisons regarding the therapeutic changes achieved and thus (at least potentially) the effectiveness of different treatment methods (cf. Leuzinger-Bohleber, 2008, p. 7 f.). The coding of several dreams, i.e. the manifest dream content as a dream series highlighted the patient’s inner psychic change process: while the safety principle dominated the beginning, involvement increased and the use of the elements was more flexible and the interactions more mixed, to approach the initial dream again towards the end of the dream series. The coding indicates that the patient was able to increase her self-efficacy due to better containment of the emergent (dysfunctional) affects. This coding procedure serves as a promising empirical process assessment for carrying out single case studies.

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Pap, G., Lackinger, F., Kamp, G., & Löffler-Stastka, H. (2021). Analysis of a dream series by the <em>Dream Coding System</em> developed by Ulrich Moser. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.538
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